Multinational Teams

Table of Contents

Leadership, Teams & Mng Chng-12M1-2013FA, 12M1 1

Introduction 3

Why Multinational Teams? 3

Types of Multinational teams 4

Advantages and Disadvantages from Multinational Teams 4

Advantages and Disadvantages from Multinational Teams 5

Creating a Sense of Purpose 5

Structuring the Task 5

1. Setting the Task 5

2. Assigning Roles and Responsibilities 6

Reaching Decisions 6

Process Strategies 7

1. Building the Team 7

2. Communication Methods 8

3. Simulating Participation 9

Resolving the Conflict 10

Evaluating Performance 11

Conclusion 11

Introduction

As globalization grows wider and wider each and every day, and as technology is collapsing the boundaries between nations, and the marketplace is warped up in one big network, that the whole world became on your fingertips, wherever you are located in this planet, organizations and firms set their journey toward the multinational work environment as a solution to problems of external adaptation and internal integration. Aiming at solving problems with teams that carry different prospective, and different scopes to look at the issues the team might face, multinational teams seems to be the perfect method to overcome such obstacles, knowing that transnational teams will always create their own culture.

Transnational teams produce broad networks that consequently result in major change, and which it can highly upgrade the level of communication and the stream of information between subsidiaries and the Headquarter and other related branches . Managers of multinational companies usually find themselves in different environment, in different places, in different times, and it is important that they have the proper skills and the background regarding the work environment to accomplish the goals, different nations have different understanding of the team functions, where for instance individualist nations, such as the US, is supporting the teams methodology as a solution, in the other hand, communist based nations, such as eastern Europe, supports the individualism . The transnational teams introduce bigger opportunities to comprehend the international issues, and help the correlation between the